Design Layout Options Assignment

Assignment Overview:

Now that we have successfully completed our as-built drawings, and assigned appropriate phasing to our models and views, it is time to begin thinking about the design of the new space.  For this assignment you will be creating options for how your space may be laid out in floor plan.

Execution:

Print a 1/8"=1'-0" scale floor plan of the shell space to an 11x17 sheet of paper.
Using trace, develop 3 different potential layouts for the space, considering the different functions required by your "client."
Your trace drawings should show wall thickness and doors.  You will probably also want to show necessary furniture (eg. desks in offices, cash wraps, etc.)
Trace sketches should be neat -- I recommend tracing the building shell and then using grid paper under the trace to freehand your layout options.
Choose one layout that you think is most successful and interpret that design in Revit using an Area Plan.
Your Area plan must be in color and have an associated color legend.

Submission Requirements:

On Tuesday, January 29, you will present preliminary hand sketch layouts.

By 2pm on Tuesday, February 5th, you must submit, to Blackboard,a single pdf that contains 1 scan of each of the different trace layouts and a pdf print of your Revit color Area Plan and Legend to 1/8"=1'-0" scale.

STIR

You will enter your projects into this competition.
You will win.

Read the rules:
http://swstudentdesign.com/

Checkpoint 2

On Thursday, January 24th you will be submitting your models for the 2nd checkpoint.  The check-in will occur at the end of class so that we can continue to develop curtain walls.  It is in your best interest to have everything complete with the exception of the curtain walls by the beginning of class. This review will look at the following:

1. Ceilings:  Correct heights, dimensions, offsets, and materials.  (This includes those pesky metal, square pendants as well as the drywall soffit running along the corridor)
2. Floors: Correct placement and the ramp
3. Walls: All walls to have base molding and any other required trim.  Adjust wall types to include layered construction (Gypsum wall board -- or other material -- and central structure).
4. Curtain Wall:  We will continue to review and discuss curtain walls on Thursday, but will be using curtain walls for the partitions between classrooms.  

Remember... everything up to this point should be drawn on the EXISTING phase.  Also, please make corrections from your previous checkpoint mistakes, if applicable. 

Checkpoint 1

On Thursday, January 17, I'll be reviewing your as-built models to ensure that you have adding all of the content we've discussed in class thus far.

To receive full credit, you'll need to have the following in your models:
Columns: appropriate type (architectural), height, and size
Column Lines (with sequential numbering and lettering)
Multiple Generic Wall Types: exterior wall thickness, furring, and interior walls should be shown differently
Window: correct dimensions and placement
Doors: correct dimension and placement; unique type (glass, wood, etc.) optional but recommended

All of your modeled content must be set to the "Existing" phase so that we are prepared for creating demo plans in the future.  You also need pay attention to elevation heights -- this includes window placement, door heights, wall heights, etc.

Welcome Winter 2013!

Hi all and welcome to Winter Quarter 2013, BIM for Interior Design (ELDS 335/740).  This quarter we'll be exploring how we can effectively use the building information modeling tool, Revit, along with other design software to communicate a small, commercial interior design project.  Starting with ACAD as-built drawings, you'll learn about phasing, design options, linking file types, custom family creation, project deliverables, and rendering. 

As you'll see in the syllabus schedule, the pace of the class moves rather quickly, and each phase builds on the previous, so it would be in your best interest to keep up.  Look now for online resources, tutors, and classmates that you can turn to if you find yourself falling behind.  Ideally, prior to each class, you'd arrive familiar with the topics so that we can move beyond the basics and discuss unique strategies for using Revit and other design software as interior designers.  

Look to this blog for resources, project descriptions, demos, and examples.  I will occasionally be posting your work as examples as well.  If you have any information or questions that you'd like to share with the class feel free to post comments on the blog (where they are permitted).  My goal is to keep this site as an ongoing repository not only for the current students, but for future students as well.  To that end, feel free to suggest posts, comment, reference after the class has ended, and link to your own sites. And finally, if you would like to receive updates when new posts are available, I am going to try to provide notification via Google plus.  Look for me at +Cotter D. Christian.   

Here's to a productive quarter!

C. Christian